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Sunday, 16 March 2014

Please Mr. Postman

Please Mr.Postman look and see

If there’s a letter in your bag for me.

The words of the song Please, Mr Postman, from a 1961 song recorded by the Marvelettes, seem to fit the picture on the postage stamp above. You may know the song from later cover versions by The Beatles and The Carpenters, among others, and by now you’re probably singing along. The singer hopes to get a letter from her boyfriend, who is away at war, and pleads for the postman to check his bag one more time, and “deliver the letter, the sooner the better.” It seems the lady on the stamp struck lucky, and as the postman is smiling we can assume it’s not bad news.

I’m amazed at how light the postman’s bag appears to be. When I was a student in the 1970s I worked on the Christmas Post and the bag slung across my shoulders was huge and heavy; I couldn’t wait to get back to the warmth and safety of the sorting office (away from the dogs and the slippery paths).

The letter was sent to my parents by a friend on 23rd September 1989 from Lugano in Switzerland. The reverse shows an idyllic scene and the friend reported that the weather was hot.

Sunday Stamps over at Viridian’s Postcard Blog is celebrating letters, letter-writing and the post; once again I’m amazed that from my meagre clutch of stamped postcards I’ve managed to find one to fit the theme.

Super stamp and perfect for the theme - I remember having quite a few Swiss ones in my collection. You know it's been ages since we got a postcard in the post, such a shame. Great colours in this one, certainly a 'wish you were here' view! Mum had an album full of fab old postcards she'd collected, must ask her if she still has it. Thanks so much for your lovely, supportive words the other day xxx

Oh I too recall those heavy bags full of Christmas post and the sleet driving into your face as you plodded the streets looking for houses that should have been there but had mysteriously vanished. I wonder if the youth of today anticipate the ping of the iPhones "message arrival" tone in the same way we would anticipate the delivery of a letter (preferably carried by someone else)

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I am a retired primary school headteacher who moved to Lanzarote for the year-round sunshine, the amazing landscape and the slower pace of life (Mañana really means mañana here). I have been married for 40 years, have a son and daughter and 8 year-old twin grandchildren. I relish the time to do what I like at last; get up when I want to, go to bed when I want to. Of course there are things I miss about England: the song of the robin and blackbird in my garden and watching the blue-tits nesting, the theatre, the art galleries, the cathedrals, but I get my fix on the visits back to Blighty and travels further afield. This is my home now, in every sense.